Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] n't quite understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't quite understand . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't quite understand ? ’ |
| 3 | But I do n't quite understand the purpose of this outing . ’ |
| 4 | er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room . |
| 5 | I do n't quite understand how the government think they 'll keep getting away with this . |
| 6 | I do n't quite understand … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't quite understand , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't quite understand , signora , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ I — I — there is a thing I do n't quite understand , Your Highness . ’ |
| 10 | I do n't quite understand your rationale here . |
| 11 | What I do n't quite understand is what was the legal basis on which they went ahead with this despite the objection , presumably as some of the trustees as to what was being done , I could hear we 're talking of er a deficit of one point seven billion appearing or it a surplus disappearing into a deficit , which is actually four times as much has disappeared out of Maxwell . |
| 12 | ‘ What I do n't quite understand … |
| 13 | alright , well then building on that I do n't quite understand it , if you 're , you 're saying that those provisions that allow agents to pull for whatever funds are necessary are what , void to what extent to the extent that the funds are or are said to be erm needed to satisfy claims on policies which had you known that which you say you ought to have known , you would not have er authorised the agents to write , type rather long that , but I |
| 14 | Well I do n't think actually , I mean I can remember and I do n't quite understand what 's going on here , keeps swapping and changing and I do n't understand it . |
| 15 | Yet when I came to think about it , it was only the slang that I did n't quite understand . |
| 16 | In Walsall Wood erm as I say , we used to have er two big bags full on a Fri Friday and then in the week we could go up but you 've got your bread but , you know , yo the men would be , I can just picture them with their little , all this pretty coloured paper would all be in little piles and when there were no customers , they would be wrapping the rice , the raisins , the currants , all in these pretty papers you see and they knew , I mean you 'd ask them for currants and they never sort of knew , I did n't quite understand how they could pick by , it 'd be by the paper you see . |
| 17 | it 's just I did want clarification on that point and I did n't quite understand the answer . |
| 18 | Oh I see what you mean er I did n't quite understand what you were talking about . |
| 19 | I think they 've filled it in yeah and they did it quite smooth , pity they did n't do this one as well while they were I did n't quite understand it |
| 20 | yeah I did n't quite understand the point of that |
| 21 | He did n't quite understand the chemistry yet , but it looked complicated . |